Huge thanks to Pint of Science and the folks at the bar - who did and didn't know it was science night! youtu.be/lziDuY-eazc

I’m very honored and excited (though nervous) to have been asked to give a Pint of Science talk in this year’s international festival! #pint26

D-1!!! 🤩 Pint of Science is back tomorrow 🍻 🧠 Did you get your tickets yet ?! 🎟️ There are still a few left for May 18, 19, 20 🗓️ This is your last chance! 👉 pintofscience.us/locations (LINK IN BIO) #Pint26

Los Angeles (CA) 📍 Los Angeles — #Pint26 The lineup is LIVE 🍻🧠 Join us May 18–20 for three nights of science across LA 🎟️ pintofscience.us/events/la/ #Pint26 #LAEvents

Once Doudna & Charpentier's labs showed in 2012 that CRISPR-Cas could be turned into tool for editing DNA in a test tube & in bacteria, the race was on to show that it could also work in eukaryotic cells. Here’s a walkthrough of the 3 Jan 2013 papers showing it could. youtu.be/r8cKubn5PEY

Congratulations class of 2026!!!!!! Especially my lab member Alice! I wish you all all the best!!!! My first of hopefully many commencement ceremonies at LMU. I doubt the regalia will ever stop feeling funny…

The CRISPR paper that changed science as we know it! Doudna and Charpentier’s game-changer article - deep dive… youtu.be/FVcFOSv2a0o

I’m sooooo excited to share with you the Bibel lab (in collaboration with the Berndsen lab @kcat-km.bsky.social)’s first preprint! Biophysical and enzymatic comparison of Bacillus safensis and Bacillus subtilis malate dehydrogenase (MDH) enzymes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Another book recommendation for you... Tyranny of the Gene: Personalized Medicine and Its Threat to Public Health by James Tabery, 2023 youtu.be/BoYir-Yn-eo

Lab milestone achieved! Stay tuned for it to go live! youtube.com/shorts/FzTKX...

What's involved in getting a science article published? Doing cool research is just the start of it, then peer review is at the heart of it! It's another thing that's typically black-boxy until you have to do it, so here's a guide to take you through it! (At least the gist) youtu.be/JjH6-Cwl-mM

I collected some of my videos and graphics on demystifying the hidden curriculum of academic science here that I hope can help people: thebumblingbiochemist.com/hiddencurric...

Types of professor, tenure track, etc. (more of that hidden curriculum of academia stuff) youtu.be/-sN382SZ4EY

ORCiD IDs: What those green "iD" circles are all about and why you should get one & check them out! youtu.be/C6o7k7ktyXc

It’s the 10 year birthday of the bumbling biochemist!!!! And, I’m hoping you might be able to chip in on a birthday present . . . youtu.be/7FSJXZmFpaw

Stacking and resolving gels & gel percentages in PAGE gels youtu.be/5j8-_Kd0qAQ bit.ly/polyacrylami...

Who needs TV when you've got FPLC? Watching protein elute (come off from) a SEC column :) youtu.be/DZ60hE99z6M

Yesterday, we had the Bibel Lab @ LMU's 1 (academic) year birthday party and it was a blast – complete with games, pictures, and presents (lab photo mugs filled with candy, mini laminated versions of their research posters, and a beautiful protein peak on the FPLC).

Bibel lab @ LMU 1 (academic) year birthday party! I can’t believe it’s been a whole academic year. I’m oh so grateful! And excited for summer research! Huge thanks to Alice, Korina, Liam, Ryan, Alvie, and Brooke, and to all my colleagues here at Loyola Marymount University! youtu.be/tbfga_tB_uQ

Reading scientific articles is hard & doing it comfortably takes a lot of practice. There’s no shortcut. But, there are things that you can do to make it easier, most of which come down to strategy. Here’s how I like to do things, & I hope it helps, but find what works for you! youtu.be/Ew-HkKL8S6k

Because sometimes, you just gotta geek out . . . Hope I got it all correct - apologies for any mistakes! (and for the length . . .) youtu.be/OCO5zLFw9yE

Continuing on my quest to demystify academic science, here's another thing I remember being confused about when I started out: "Journal Club." Don't worry - I gotcha :) youtu.be/NtdrYBC1w8g

Don't pipet into thin air! - pipet into liquid or onto wall of container so surface tension can help pull it all out youtu.be/T1KxYksUdYA

I don't deserve this life! Trying to make the most of it. I'm so proud of the progress my students have made in my first semester here (and not just regarding one-handed tube decapping!) Thank you LMU! And all the members of the Bibel lab. youtube.com/shorts/ACqIe...

Think you're ready to move on in your protein purification? Check for Bradford blue before you do! Use a quick and dirty qualitative Bradford assay to check if protein's still coming out of the chromatography column youtu.be/aooaWHceTMM

Lab hack for cracking open PAGE gel cassettes . . . Psst - can I let you in on a secret? You don't need one of the official Biorad gel cracker things to open their pre-cast gels. In fact, I think the curved part of a metal lab spatula works even better! youtube.com/shorts/mcIse...

I'm so impressed by my Advanced Biochem Lab students. They rocked their MDH CUREs poster presentations today! I'm so grateful the MDH CUREs community and LMU helped make it possible for these students to get a semester-long authentic research experience!

An overview of structural biology techniques – crystallography, cryo-EM, NMR, computational methods youtu.be/D4kzhW4zXP4

Staying organized with lab "inventory" spreadsheets and logs (especially for protein biochemists) youtu.be/wsN0rBc8IcI

One of the reasons I'm so glad I started learning Adobe Illustrator in grad school – it's so useful to annotate and organize gels! Hope someone can find this useful too! youtu.be/K7kj93aT67Q

Lab tip: Load 1X sample loading buffer in "empty" lanes of your gel – but load them last, and strategically youtube.com/shorts/w24rn...

The first SDS-PAGE of a student is a site to be seen! Way to go Brooke! And the support from her lab mates was authentic and enthusiastic. One of the reasons I wanted to go teach at an undergrad-focused institution is moments like this! youtube.com/shorts/40u6M...

Converting UV280 absorbance to protein concentration - finding conversion values & using on a NanoDrop youtu.be/afLo6VzkTos

Whirlwind protein purification (and more) day. People often ask me what a typical day for me is like – there really is no such thing! Though, I'll admit, today was a bit much . . . (But mostly in good ways :) ) youtube.com/shorts/H3cyW...

A peek at strategic SEC peak picking - strategy is key! youtube.com/shorts/eHjda...

Before you press start, here are some things to check on your AKTA (or other brand of FPLC) youtube.com/shorts/wJbu3...

Research posters and their presentations can be another one of those things students all too often seem to be expected to know how to do. And, complicating matters, there's no one "right way" to make them. . . youtu.be/24qtTQCS5NM

I love FPLC (Fast Protein Liquid Chromatography) - but sometimes, I still feel gravity flow is the way to go! I often prefer to do affinity chromatography using good ‘ole gravity flow (with batch binding which I’ll talk about below) before moving on to the fancy machine. youtu.be/1PN90h5o_3U

Today my mom got to meet part of the Bibel lab and see me in my element – Huge thanks to Liam, Ryan, Korina, & Brooke for coming to hang with us and to all my colleagues who took time to visit and help my mom see how supported I am here. I’m so grateful to have landed at LMU!

Yesterday was purification day - the old school way! (which I sometimes think works better for affinity anyway...)

Satellite colonies are bacterial free loaders - they’re tagging along for the antibiotic selection ride even though they don’t have our plasmid inside!  youtu.be/xENBDYsdFBQ bit.ly/satellitecol...

When's it good to feel blue? When you're running a blue native PAGE! youtu.be/T0eYmTDX1bc

We're quite excited about getting a loop valve for our AKTA so we can have multiple sample loops hooked up at once youtube.com/shorts/RIu0O...

Does anyone know of anyone who might be able to give a meeting talk about the environmental costs of AI, ideally in the context of education &/or biochemistry? Thanks in advance

Take cool molecule 1 and chemically glue it cool molecule 2. Now you've got a single conjugate molecule combining the coolness of the 2! youtu.be/ArW3B4pgY2k

Interpreting SDS-PAGE gels & using them to assess protein purification scheme efficiency & efficacy youtu.be/ifDJUt8Qz7I

Colloidal Coomassie Brilliant Blue stains – the way "Instant" protein gel stains work youtu.be/WlFrYxqGD64

Tips for getting a publication-pretty PAGE (SDS-PAGE, urea-PAGE, etc.) youtu.be/8MCfiSiJDNU

PAGE tip – use a gel loading tip to straighten well walls before loading your samples. This will help your lanes run unwarped and ensure you are able to get your tip in the well without disrupting the neighboring ones and/or having your sample jump out. youtube.com/shorts/a7waW...

Preventing leaks in SDS-PAGE (emphasis on setting up Biorad TetraCell cassette modules) youtube.com/shorts/kS0rH...